Description du projet
Gros plan sur les trafiquants impliqués dans la traite des êtres humains
Les gouvernements nationaux dépensent des millions pour lutter contre la traite des êtres humains et aider ceux qui en sont victimes. Cependant, les recherches consacrées aux trafiquants ne sont guère nombreuses. Le projet TRAFFICKER, financé par le programme MSCA, appliquera le concept analytique des «circuits sociaux» pour étudier de manière ethnographique les activités commerciales et les relations sociales des trafiquants d’êtres humains. Le projet s’appuie sur un travail ethnographique de terrain portant sur les pays d’origine et de destination des trafiquants. Ainsi, TRAFFICKER se concentrera sur la ville de Galati, dans l’est de la Roumanie, et sur les prisons de Lisbonne, au Portugal, auprès des personnes incarcérées pour trafic d’êtres humains. Le projet expliquera la manière dont les trafiquants se livrent à la traite des êtres humains, la façon dont les réseaux criminels nationaux mènent leurs activités au-delà des frontières, les relations de parenté et le rôle des relations sociales, ainsi que leur vie en détention et après celle-ci.
Objectif
During the past two decades, millions of euros have been spent by national governments and international organisations on combatting human trafficking and on offering assistance to victims of trafficking. However, we know surprisingly little about the people who facilitate, manage and orchestrate human trafficking: the traffickers. But who are the human traffickers, if we look beyond the stereotypes? The TRAFFICKER project will answer this question and fill this knowledge-lacuna, by ethnographically investigating the business operations and social relationships of human traffickers, via the analytical concept of ‘social circuits’.
The project is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two sites, in respectively one country of origin and one destination country of the traffickers: (a) the city of Galati in Eastern Romania, and (b) in prisons in Lisbon, Portugal, among inmates that are incarcerated for human trafficking. The TRAFFICKER project builds on my extensive research and fieldwork experience within the fields of transnational crime, third-party facilitation/pimping and sex work. This background is essential to the project, since it provides access to the necessary local networks, as well as providing the needed methodological knowledge and ethical awareness.
The project illuminates:
1) How human trafficking is carried out by traffickers on the ground, and thus how national criminal networks make their illegal business transnational.
2) The ways in which the kinships relations and social relationships of human traffickers hinder or enable their transnational criminal livelihood.
3) The lives of human traffickers both during and after imprisonment and their navigation of legal and illegal work domains.
This knowledge will not only be beneficial for the academic research community on transnational, organised crime, but also for stakeholders such as NGOs, policy makers, international organisations, governments and law enforcement, as well as for the wider public.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinateur
1165 Kobenhavn
Danemark